Psychedelic drugs alter consciousness in a profound and novel way that increases the breadth and fluency of cognition. However, until recently, we were unable to offer an explanation for how the brain was altered to account for these effects. In a...

Mushrooms are usually cultivated indoors, but that’s not how it has to be. With some help you can easily how to grow mushrooms in your backyard because aren't difficult to grow at home if you set up the proper...

Death is as much a part of life as birth. We all know we are heading there, yet Western culture does everything possible to ignore it. Although our mortality is inevitable, we still can’t begin to imagine dying or...

At 25, a friend introduced me to “Surfing Finnegans Wake,” in which a nasally man lectures for three hours, ostensibly off-the-cuff, on the psychedelic, boundary-dissolving experience of reading James Joyce. I remember thinking his voice sounded extra-terrestrial. It was Terence...

The following is a review of the book Magic Mushroom Explorer; Psilocybin and the Awakening Earth by Simon G Powell (Park Street Press, 2015). It first appeared in Psychedelic Press UK, here:  The story of the psilocybin-containing ‘magic’ mushroom, of which there are hundreds...